Criminal justice reporter

Three men have been charged in connection with a robbery early Sunday morning at a west Athens motel.

The victim, a 21-year-old woman from Atlanta, knew one of the suspects who rushed in after knocking on the door to her room at Budget Host Inn, 3425 Atlanta Highway, Athens-Clarke police said.

Although she was familiar with 33-year-old Charlie William Jordan of Crawford, the victim was not expecting him when he showed up at the motel at about 5:15 a.m., police said.

She did say that she had called Jordan on Friday to let him know she was in Athens, police said.

Jordan and two other men rushed into the room and began to look around after the victim opened the door for them, police said.

The woman told police that Jordan held one of his hands in his pants pocket “in an intimidating way” and believed he might have a gun.

She questioned him about being there with two other men, to which Jordan allegedly replied, “Man shawty, chill. It’s Jordan. Like, it’s straight when you with me.”

The woman told the three men to leave. When they ignored her she fled from the room for fear of getting trapped inside with them, police said.

She ran to the motel’s office to call 911, and upon returning to her room found that a Nook e-reader was missing, according to police.

She gave officers a description of the suspects and their car, which was located and stopped on West Broad Street, police said.

Jordan and the two other occupants were later detained for questioning and identified by the victim as the men who barged into her motel room. They were all charged with robbery and first-degree burglary.

The other two suspects were identified by police as Athens residents David Alexander White, 21, of Windy Hill Way, and Nitgel Rajiv Williams, 18, of Sussex Drive.